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Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell (or not...updated)
Magamo writes "Console Talk has the story on a settlement between Sony and Nintendo over the rights to the "PlayStation" name, which was originally a joint owned copywrite, given to a CD and Cartridge based system to play SNES games. The settlement is for 10% of Sony's proceeds, past and present on the "PlayStation" name, currently amounting to approximately $2.3 billion. Nintendo is allowing Sony to pay it off in installments over the next 20 years. Nintendo currently plans on using the money to create a new game studio comprised of members of some of the biggest in the japanese industry, in order to create titles exclusively for the GameCube. Hmm, my guess is that Sony's next console will be shying away from the PlayStation moniker..." CD: It seems that I might have fallen for a hoax. Doh!
Maybe we won't see the PlayStation 5 after all.
from news.google.com: Your search - sony playstation nintendo trademark - did not match any documents.
That's bullshit. It does too match a story, "Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell," posted 5 minutes ago on Sl... dammit.
I write in my journal
In other news, a 45 year old italian plumber named mario, sues nintendo, for defamation of character, and slander.
"Copywrite" was even more wrong!
Random is the New Order.
...stereotyping of me and my profession. Plumbers rarely venture into pipes to fight mushrooms and turtles, especially fire-breathing ones at that. People now ask me all the time what it was like to drop the drawbridge from under the 20-foot tall hammer-throwing snapper turtle. I can't stress it enough that we of the plumber's profession take out jobs, and out butt-cracks seriously. They both need to be properly polished and shown to all the right people."
Sex - Find It
Note to self: evidently "Informative" can also mean "moderately convincing lie."
I write in my journal
I guess the next system from Sony won't be a "box", "cube", or "station". How about "Sony Girlfriend Eliminator"?
Go here for teh [sic] funny.
First we get stories that are duped.
Now we are getting duped by stories.
Introducing Microsoft Vacuum 1.0 The first Microsoft product that doesn't suck.
ADMINS - NIX THIS AS A HOAX IMMEDIATELY IF YOU CAN'T VERIFY THE STORY.
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Google News and now The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6816) have now sourced the article on
It's spreading.
That used to be the definition, but recently they pulled the word from the dictionary entirely. Perhaps Slashdot ought to do a story on that...
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
The good news is that we'll probably get less dupes the more they start making stuff up.